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noting

/ˈnoʊtɪŋ/

noting is the present participle and gerund of note.

noting is the pronunciation spelling of nothing.

Meaning of note

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)

  1. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
    • If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
  2. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
    • We noted his speech.
  3. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
    • The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.
  4. (transitive) To annotate.
  5. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
  6. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
    • By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769

See all 32 meanings of note

Meaning of nothing

Pronoun

nothing (indefinite pronoun)

  1. (indefinite, pronoun) Not any thing; no thing.
    • Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.
    Synonyms:
    not a thing, naught, jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix, bugger all
  2. (indefinite, pronoun) An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

See all 9 meanings of nothing

Noun

noting (countable and uncountable, plural notings)

  1. A note; a written remark.
    • At the end of his notings and his calculations he went out into the street with a smile of satisfaction on his round face, for the fates had been good to him.1928, Edgar Wallace, The Twister
    • In large Companies, it will be appreciated that notings are numerous, and therefore time consuming. While experienced staff become expert at picking out the clause applicable, it still takes considerable time to make extracts […]1960, C. W. Kerry, Share register practice

Forms of noting

pluralnotings

Words formed from noting

Phrases with noting

Questions about noting

What does noting mean?
Noting means a note; a written remark.
What is noting the present participle and gerund of?
Noting is the present participle and gerund of note.
What part of speech is noting?
Noting is a noun.
How do you pronounce noting?
Noting is pronounced /ˈnoʊtɪŋ/.
What is the plural of noting?
The plural of noting is notings.

Words near noting in the dictionary

  1. notifs
  2. notify
  3. notifyee
  4. notifyees
  5. notifying
  6. noting
  7. noting down
  8. Notinger
  9. notings
  10. notion
  11. notionable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noting (page history and authors); note (page history and authors); nothing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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